Meet Andy SCHOR

Andy Schor believes in public service, and that elected officials need to work in a bi-partisan or non-partisan way to get things done for people and communities. He served five years in the Michigan House of Representatives, and currently serves as Mayor of Lansing.

As a State Representative, Schor was able to accomplish much despite serving in the minority. He lead the effort for the House Democrats, and worked with both sides of the aisle, to make Michigan the only Republican-controlled state to pass Medicaid Expansion. As a result, Michigan now has over 1 million people that have health care. He worked with Republicans and Democrats to reform K-12 Zero Tolerance legislation, returning local control to rural, urban, and suburban school districts and ensuring our young people can continue to get an education after making innocent mistakes. He passed legislation to create jobs and economic development opportunities, including providing needed dollars for creation and expansion of neighborhood and commercial grocery stores in areas lacking healthy foods. Schor worked with the business community and local governments to pass his bi-partisan legislation that reformed the personal property tax. He also passed bi-partisan legislation that gives people more options to help vote, such as using a signature stamp if they cannot sign their name due due to illness or incapacity.

As Mayor, Andy Schor worked with Democrats and Republicans on many local issues. He refused to defund the police, but put in policies to ensure that the police committed to treat everyone equally without discrimination and to have consequences for those that didn’t uphold this standard. He worked with businesses and neighbors on the needs of all residents - including clean neighborhoods, great parks and recreation options, fixing as many roads and bridges as possible with the money we receive from the state, support for our schools and youth, jobs through economic development, social service assistance for those in need, and many other areas. He has helped to create housing for all incomes, from workforce rental housing to market-rate rental housing, and stand-alone housing for families. And he has taken on long-standing issues of racial justice by making changes to city policies to ensure equity and equality, and engaging city and regional leaders to create a Racial Justice and Equity Plan for the City of Lansing. Under Schor’s leadership Lansing has grown significantly even through a pandemic, with approximately $2 billion in new investment from projects both completed and in progress. Lansing was named the number one affordable city to live in the United States based on high quality of life and low cost of living, as well as one of the top cities to live in after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Andy Schor serves on the Accelerator of America Board, the Capital Area United Way Board, the Lansing Promise Board, City of Lansing Employees and Police and Fire Retirement System Board of Trustees, and as the Vice Chair on the U.S. Conference of Mayors Metro Universities Task Force. He has previously served on the Michigan Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s Covid-19 Workplace Safety Taskforce, the State of Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission.

Schor has advocated for communities in Michigan for years. Before being elected to the State House of Representatives and Mayor, he served as an Ingham County Commissioner while also working as the Assistant Director for State and Federal Affairs for the Michigan Municipal League. Before that, he worked as Legislative Director for State Sen. Gary Peters and State Rep. Paul Condino, and served as the Public Information Officer for the Michigan Insurance Commissioner.

Andy and his wife, Erin, have lived in Lansing for over 20 years, and their children attended school in the Lansing School District. Andy graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, earning a Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and history.